Y Quotes
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“You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty.”
“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
Source: Mercy
“You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are”
“You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.”
“You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.”
“You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.”
“You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.”
“You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.”
“You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.”
“You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.”
“You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.”
“You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.”
“You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.”
“You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.”
Source: Fragile Eternity
“You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.”
Source: The Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Series, Books 4-6: To Darkness and to Death; All Mortal Flesh; I Shall Not Want
“You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.”
“You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.”
“You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma.
"I-- What?"
"He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.”
“You know," June says, "she's so insecure, it almost makes her ugly. Like, she's so unsure of herself, you become unsure of her too.”
“You know, Junie, you're fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. ...
The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that sandwich. If she knew that I'd searched and searched the house until I finally found the little key to the fireproof box buried in the bottom of her underwear drawer, if she knew that I'd unlocked the box and taken my passport out, that I had it with me right that very second in a Ziploc bag in the bottom of my backpack, if she knew why I had it there, if she knew even a bit of all that, she might have made me that PBJ. She wouldn't have said, "You're fourteen now," like she thought I was some kind of responsible adult. No. If she knew about my plan, she would have said, "you're only fourteen." She would have told me that I was crazy to think about going to England with I was only fourteen.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.”
“You know, just because the rest of us aren't as perfect as you are doesn't mean we're completely useless. Which reminds me--- what the hell did Brigid do that made you cut her off from the rest of her family?"
Phoebe hesitated.
"Tell me!" Sibyl demanded.
"She said Calum didn't kill our mother."
Sibyl threw her hands up. "So Brigid was right and you've been punishing her all this time for nothing?"
"He was the reason my mother died!"
"No." Sybil was adamant. "Flora showed us. She made a choice. It was her decision. Brigid was right all along."
"Technically," Phoebe muttered.
"What the fuck, Mom! Are you completely incapable of admitting you're wrong?”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay.”
“You know Jyn Erso?” she began, because if they didn’t the rest of the story would be meaningless. “The woman who started it all and destroyed the Death Star? The first one, the real one, I mean.”
“General Skywalker and Red Squadron destroyed the Death Star,” Nath said.
“Skywalker fired the last shot, was all. Jyn did everything that mattered.”
Source: Alphabet Squadron
“You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?”
Source: Happiness
“You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.”
“You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago”
“You know, ‘ladies’ is old fashioned, Mr. Smith. I like to use ‘womyn’, spelled ‘W-O-M-Y-N’, so I don’t have to include the word ‘man’”. I smile, and a few of the other girls clap.”
Source: Watch Us Rise
“You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.”
“You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.”
“You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.”
Source: Entice
“You know, life put you in places you never expected”
Source: Lover Mine
“You know like it has its own personality, its own character.”
“You know, like Prince Charming. Because you never know, maybe he's an enchanted prince under an evil spell."
"Life isn't a fairy tale, you know," Sam said.
"Wanna bet?" The teen smirked at him.”
Source: Wickedly Powerful
“You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.”
“You know little yet of the Divine Impatience which longs to rush to give. Does one worrying thought enter your mind, one impatient thought? Fight it at once.”
Source: God Calling for Morning and Evening
“You know, lobsters just get bigger and bigger without aging and, if there were no other threats to them, they'd live forever. Sea sponges too, Mama." I call her what I used to when I was a child. "They stay beautiful and bright and they live for thousands of years. That's us.”
Source: Woman, Eating
“You know," Loki said, toeing a volume that had tumbled from the pile. "You'd have more room if you kept fewer books."
Theo hung his cane on the edge of the grate beside the small fire place and began to stoke the ashes. "I'd rather have books than space.”
Source: Loki: Where Mischief Lies
“You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.”
“You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is”
“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.”
“I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.”Machaon responded tersely.”
Source: Chasing Odysseus
“You know, madam, that men reason to strengthen their own prejudices, and not to disturb their adversary's convictions.”
Source: The Man with a Load of Mischief
“You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.”
“You know," Manus sniffs and wipes the back of his hand under his nose. "I'm high right now so it's okay if I tell you this." Manus looks at Brandy bent over him and me crouched in the dirt. "First," Manus says, "your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
“You know, Marco, they can leave us, they can grow old, but it's like they're still here, running around our feet, just like when they were little tykes.”
Source: The Adoption
“You know me and I have a pension. It provides some comfort but only some. It's still not enough to live off completely but it sure will help. But I'll say this. I try to forget about it and save like a maniac because I want the assurance of having other pots of money.”
“You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy.”
Source: The Guardian